Historical Fiction Quotes
How things change, ’ I say, ‘how strange that, even when all is lost, we can still find beauty in simple things.
Mayor Walmsley is using the typical Jim Crow manipulation tactics to deflect the blame and guilt. He's a classic racist politician with an ulterior motive, ” says Ora.
you come to understand that history might be, as Thomas Carlyle put it, “a distillation of rumor, ” or, as Napoleon said, “a set of lies generally agreed upon
The written word is the greatest sacred documentation.
Where have they gone?" "Wherever magicians used to go. Behind the sky. On the other side of the rain.
The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark.
The weather in this land was quite unruly, and if you couldn't appreciate the many shades of gray, you had no business living in it. Alden Garrat Warrior Heart
But now, here were the British among us, upon our soil where the sun rises over one lake and sets upon another.
Nothing good in this world comes free! For everything there’s a payment of time or money or soul!
Ghosts!” gasped Alice. “Real, live ghosts?”“No! Not ‘real, live ghosts!’ Spooky, dead ghosts!
Cheers went up around the decks as the Dolphins oars began to move as one in and out shifting and cutting away at the sea beneath, SICANIA RISING
Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar.
I am afraid, my dear niece, that a ‘mere woman’ is something you most certainly are not.
Their eyes locked.They could see into each other's souls. This was why she had been bored.
Between the sands of time and tradition is a multitude of truths untold.
The typewriter is indeed my passport into a world otherwise barred to me and my kind.
How men fear the chaos of the world, I thought, and the yawning eternity hereafter. So we build patterns to explain its terrible mysteries and reassure ourselves we are safe in this world and beyond.
If Miss Elton spoke water instead of words, then there would have been a repetition of Noah’s flood.
I’m an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past.
It would be, like all of Pammy's parties, hot and crowded and filled with impossibly glamorous people with hip bones so sharp they could qualify as concealed weapons.
I look up and watch the bad parts of me shrinking to dots in the wide blue.
Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.--Ray Bradbury
Only a fool lies brooding over his problems. When the morning comes he's tired out and his problems are the same as before.
Some girls are sweeter… Others have a tinge of bitterness… It is as if I can smell their souls. Their experiences and relationships are painted in warm, sour crimson.
She smells of her cooking and the perfume Eau d'Hadrien. My mother wore it, too. She used to cook, like Lili. Our house smelled of garlic and thyme instead of sadness.
A man should not glory in what he already knows but in what he has yet to learn.
Even a goat got to be a goat." Esperança's comments about slaves during the triangular slave trade.
Their eyes locked.They could see into each other's souls. This was why she had been born.
History immortalises both the names of the greats and the tyrants without making a distinction between them.
when you walk the path of revenge, know that someone will always follow your trail
Discourses, which are mostly wrapped in spurious religious and patriotic ideologies that ignite the enthusiasm of the ignorant masses
The problem with living so long is that you see too many people pass before you.
Lady's mouth tasted like blood and iron all the time now. It tasted like defeat.
The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt.
To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.
One's child is always one's child no matter what age they might be. You worry when your child makes a noise, when he doesn't. It's a terrible kind of love. Terrible.
When you live in my house, you learn to be fine with whatever you come across. It's the only way to stay sane in insanity.
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. - Eighth Amendment, United States Constitution
Peggy is a sovereign nation. She governs herself and those around her by her own laws.